{"id":1733,"date":"2005-10-09T23:25:05","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T23:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1733.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:12","slug":"a-history-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/10\/09\/a-history-of-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>A History Of Violence<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small-town family man Tom Stall runs a diner.  One day, a couple of criminals stop by to try and rob the place, but instead Tom kills them with brutal efficiency.  The media turn him into a hero, but he doesn&#8217;t want the attention.  A few days later, some more shady characters turn up, convinced that Tom is actually a gangster from Philadelphia called Joey Cusack, who disappeared twenty years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is a superb film.  Don&#8217;t expect a flashy action movie, though:  it&#8217;s a slow burner, with lots of time spent on the relationship between Tom and his wife and children, and how these few pivotal moments turn their lives upside down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small-town family man Tom Stall runs a diner. One day, a couple of criminals stop by to try and rob the place, but instead Tom kills them with brutal efficiency. The media turn him into a hero, but he doesn&#8217;t want the attention. A few days later, some more shady characters turn up, convinced that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}